(D.)—MONEY ORDER BUSINESS.
Colonial
Total
No, of Orders.
Amount.
In Sterling.
Com-mission.
Com-mission.
Hongkong on London,......
Shanghai
1,723 788
£ s. d. 7,094.18. 7
$ c.
$ c.
208.77
31
2,931. 1. 4
100.64
Hongkong or Shanghai on Queensland,
11
36. 0. 0
2.75
on New South Wales,
on South Australia,
28
30
200. 5. 9
11.75
13
80.13. 2
5.00
on Western Australia,
Total Outward Orders in Sterling,..............
2,565
10,342.18.10
394.91
394.91
London on Hongkong,
113
""
on Shanghai,
Queensland on Hongkong or Shanghai,
New South Wales on
254
17
South Australia on-
"2
Western Australia on
285297
408.19. 8 95. 5. 3
23.03
5.33
457. 7. 6
1,730.15. 0
92.31
282.10. 8
15.07
3. 0, 0
11
Total Inward Orders in Sterling, .
529
2,977.18. 1
135.74
135.74
In Dollars.
$ c.
$ c.
Hongkong on Shanghai,
51
1,221.49
17.25
Japan,
38
1,003.10
7.50
or Shanghai on Straits Settlements,
44
931.43
12.25
Total Outward Orders in Dollars,
133
3,156.02
37.00
27.00
Shanghai on Hongkong,......
Japan
21
Straits Settlements on Hongkong,..
Total Inward Orders in Dollars,..
TOTAL COMMISSION,......................
111
2,279.83
34.25
50
663.80
95
1,978.99
256
4,922.62
34.25
34.25
601.90
* Hongkong gives the paying Colony 1 per cent. commission on these amounts.
Hongkong received 1 per cent, commission on these amounts.
Most of this amount consisted of the values of Imperial Money Orders in favour of seamen in H. M. feet, which were exchanged for Local Orders on Japan without charging a fresh Commission, hence the relatively small amount of Commission reported.
(E.)—APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1881.
Supplied to the International Bureau of the Postal Union, Berne.
INTERNATIONAL.
LOCAL.
COMPARISON WITH 1880.
DESCRIPTION
OF
TOTAL.
CORRESPONDENCE.
De-patched.
Received.
De-spatched-
Received.
Total in 1880.
Increase.
Decrease.
Ordinary paid Letters,....
Unpaid and short paid Articles,.
375,100 339,500 69,000 75,700 859,300
5,500 12,000
785,000
74,000
3,500
13,500
34,500 27,500
7,000
Letters on Postal Business,.........................
740.
Post Cards,...
2,600
890 4,800
1,400
1,300
4,330
3,800
530
3,100
1,100
11,600
4,400
7,200
Do.. with prepaid reply,
1
2
Newspapers and Periodicals,
101,000
807,800
79,700 19,900
Books, Circulars, Prices Current, &c.,
135,000
85,700
Patterns...
Commercial Papers,
Registered Articles,
3,500 130 11,128
3,500
11,200 250
11,200 150
160 13,988
4,745
+
2,977
508,400 495,000 243,100 7,400 290 32,838
13,400
415,000
171,900
19,600
12,200
1,300 32,600
THE
1,010
238
Letters with value declared,
Registered Articles with Return Receipt, Parcels,
Do. with value declared.....
Number of Money Orders,..................................................................
Amount of
37
Do.
---
fr. 285,483 fr. 92,624
•
***
195
325
198
65
783
780
3
117
120
80
317
770
453
***
2,647
674
61
111
3,483
3,244
239
fr. 6,107 | fr. 11,399 Įŵr. 395,613 fr.357,691 | fr. 57,922